From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 7 08:50:20 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 56C701065678 for ; Mon, 7 Jun 2010 08:50:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from igloo.linux.gr (igloo.linux.gr [62.1.205.36]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF70A8FC1B for ; Mon, 7 Jun 2010 08:50:19 +0000 (UTC) X-Spam-Status: No X-Hellug-MailScanner-From: keramida@ceid.upatras.gr X-Hellug-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (not cached, score=-0.2, required 5, autolearn=not spam, ALL_TRUSTED -1.00, BAYES_50 0.80) X-Hellug-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-Hellug-MailScanner-ID: o578o3d6020225 Received: from kobe.laptop (193.92.246.105.dsl.dyn.forthnet.gr [193.92.246.105]) (authenticated bits=128) by igloo.linux.gr (8.14.3/8.14.3/Debian-9.1) with ESMTP id o578o3d6020225 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Mon, 7 Jun 2010 11:50:09 +0300 Received: from kobe.laptop (kobe.laptop [127.0.0.1]) by kobe.laptop (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id o578nvDZ003989 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Mon, 7 Jun 2010 11:49:57 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: (from keramida@localhost) by kobe.laptop (8.14.4/8.14.4/Submit) id o578nu5X003986; Mon, 7 Jun 2010 11:49:56 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) From: Giorgos Keramidas To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <87k4qc5ryr.fsf@kobe.laptop> <20100606075751.6453f6ef@scorpio> Date: Mon, 07 Jun 2010 11:49:56 +0300 In-Reply-To: <20100606075751.6453f6ef@scorpio> (Jerry's message of "Sun, 6 Jun 2010 07:57:51 -0400") Message-ID: <87wrubkz0r.fsf@kobe.laptop> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Subject: Re: which is the basic differences between the shells? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 07 Jun 2010 08:50:20 -0000 On Sun, 6 Jun 2010 07:57:51 -0400, Jerry wrote: > On Sun, 06 Jun 2010 14:19:08 +0300 > Giorgos Keramidas articulated: >> You can always install bash with "pkg_add". The default package is >> not built as a static binary, but you can compile a static bash >> binary from its port: >> >> # cd /usr/ports/shells/bash >> # make WITH_STATIC_BASH=1 install clean > > I thought that was what this port was for: > > Port: bash-static-4.1.5_2 > Path: /usr/ports/shells/bash-static > Info: The GNU Project's Bourne Again SHell Yes, that's what bash-static enables. I only mentioned WITH_STATIC_BASH because it's what I usually prefer to avoid gettext/libintl.so troubles when portupgrade is still half-done and I want to open a new screen window or xterm.